Farmers find budget 'underwhelming'

Tasmania's Farmers and Graziers Association has told its members they have received next to nothing from the federal budget.

The new TFGA head Jan Davis says in the crucial areas of quarantine and biosecurity, and research and development, the budget has failed.

Ms Davis has told the Country Hour farmers will receive barely a ripple in benefits.

"There are some decisions and programs handed down in the budget that affect farmers as small businesses and farmers, as individual tax payers and members of the community and those things will be different," she said "But as a farmer probably nothing that you'll notice as an impact as a direct result of this, no."

A lack of funding for quarantine measures is a major disappointment.

"One of the things that the government committed strongly to was implementing the recommendations of the Beale Review of quarantine and biosecurity that came out some 12 months or so ago.

"There's no funding for Beale recommendation implementation in the budget and that, we believe, is a severe failing," Ms Davis said.